Who is your favourite Batman?

I know it's become popular to knock him for his infamous Batman 'growl' but Christian Bale is my favourite.

I grew up with the Keaton films and the animated series as a kid and became fond of those portrayals. But it wasn't until Bale/Nolan's interpretation of the character where I went 'this is my definitive Batman'. In terms of the cinematic portrayals, Bale's portrayal was the first where I believed that this guy (Bruce Wayne) would go to great lengths to be Batman. Plus it also helped from Bale's physicality that you believed he could take down criminals.

There's another Batman who, understandably, no one has even contemplated yet. Actor Lewis Wilson who played Batman/Bruce Wayne in the mostly forgotten 1943 serial (15 of them). I haven't even watched it myself but it's on YouTube and I think I'll have a go at it tonight.

A bloke in an elaborate costume fighting criminals in their own striking costumes, it has to be Adam West. I quite like the Batman films, but it's hard to take them too seriously, and thankfully Adam West's Batman doesn't either.